Introduction 1 Book 1: Wrapping Your Brain Around Blender 7 Chapter 1: Discovering Blender 9 Chapter 2: Understanding How Blender Thinks 29 Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty Working in Blender 71 Chapter 4: Working in Edit Mode and Object Mode 87 Book 2: Creating Detailed 3D Scenes 123 Chapter 1: Creating Anything You Can Imagine with Meshes 125 Chapter 2: Simplifying Your Life as a Modeler with Modifiers 153 Chapter 3: Sculpting in Virtual Space 177 Chapter 4: Using Blender's Non-Mesh Primitives 217 Chapter 5: Getting Procedural with Geometry Nodes 257 Book 3: Working with Colors and Materials 295 Chapter 1: Changing That Boring Gray Default Material 297 Chapter 2: Giving Models Texture 337 Chapter 3: Lighting and Environment 369 Chapter 4: Exporting and Rendering Scenes 409 Book 4: Get Animated! 429 Chapter 1: Animating Objects 431 Chapter 2: Adding Controls to Your Scene 455 Chapter 3: Rigging: The Art of Building an Animatable Puppet 481 Chapter 4: Animating Object Deformations 531 Chapter 5: Letting Blender Do the Work for You 553 Chapter 6: Making 2D and 2.5D Animation with Grease Pencil 587 Book 5: Sharing Your Work with the World 629 Chapter 1: Editing Video and Animation 631 Chapter 2: Compositing Images and Video 651 Chapter 3: Mixing Video and 3D with Motion Tracking 681 Book 6: Getting Technical 705 Chapter 1: Working with Linked Data 707 Chapter 2: Automating Blender with Python Scripting 719 Index 735.